Are you a developer who wants to test changes to their website before making them live? Or do you want to block access to certain websites on your home network? A simple search on the internet will ...

One of the easiest yet least known ways to drastically improve any PC’s ability to defend itself against malware such as adware or spyware is to simply redirect malicious websites using the hosts file ...

I don't know of a way to easily edit this file short of replacing it.<BR><BR>A reboot is not needed in order to have updates to the HOSTS file recognized. This file is parsed everytime a Winsock name ...

There’s no shortage of browser extensions you can use to stay productive by blocking distracting websites throughout the day. (Sorry Reddit, YouTube, and Facebook.) But are they really that effective ...

The Hosts file in Windows 11/10, is used to map host names to IP addresses. If for some reason, you find that your Hosts file has been compromised and that some malicious entries have been added, you ...

Microsoft has a new utility to the PowerToys toolset that will help Windows users find the processes using selected files and unlock them without requiring a third-party tool. PowerToys 0.64.0 also ...

If you see There was an error while attempting to read the local hosts file, Event ID 1012 in the Event Viewer of your Windows 11/10 computer, follow the solutions ...